The families of two of England’s 1966 World Cup winners, Jack Charlton and Nobby Stiles, are backing a new campaign to revamp sport’s approach to research into the links between dementia and repeated blows to the head. The campaign is being co-ordinated by Dr Judith Gates, wife of the former […]
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in space, scientists said Friday. Scientists announced the news three days after the spacecraft named Osiris-Rex briefly touched asteroid Bennu, NASA’s […]
WASHINGTON — NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected so much material from the surface of the asteroid Bennu that the lid of its sampling head is jammed open, causing material to leak out and changing the agency’s plans for the mission. At a media briefing called by NASA on short notice Oct. […]
Some of the sample is leaking into space, according to Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona in Tucson during a NASA press conference Friday. “The big concern now is that particles are escaping because we’re almost a victim of our own success,” he said. “Large particles […]
Experts are hopeful that a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus will become available sooner rather than later. SOPA Images/Getty Images For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. While many public health experts have been critical of the US response to the coronavirus pandemic, one […]
This story is part of Elections 2020, CNET’s coverage of the run-up to voting in November. However you go about casting your vote, you have to admire this NASA astronaut who managed to cast her vote from space. Kate Rubins, who’s currently on duty aboard the International Space Station, posted a […]
This COVID-19 vaccine trial in Florida and others could be disrupted if the Food and Drug Administration authorizes one vaccine before others. Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images By Jon CohenOct. 23, 2020 , 3:45 PM Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation. Concerns […]
Psychological fallout from the pandemic will cause birth rates to drop, people to stay single for longer and women to sexualise themselves more, experts have predicted. Experts from the US reviewed 90 studies to help them predict how COVID-19 could shift social behaviours and gender norms — even among those not […]